Show YANKEE HUMOR ahe 1 lie gift of humor huntor ii ig the saving grace of it difficult situation and americans possess this admer able trait to tb a remarkable legree degree it la Is traditional that no matter hon ho dark the day or hard tho the going we e us tig people are arc able to sift some soine humor out of the situation and the fact that we are beginning to find manifestations ot of it on oil ovary every hand leads one to believe that collectively we e are rapidly recovering our customary sanity por for instance our soldiers had hardly landed in france when they announced that they intended t to bluso I 1 can the kalser kaiser at first blush h this intensely our english friends lenda tr who with N lilt their own inimitable al of humor found great delight in contemplating the of the american ardys intention of bottling up the jerman german war lord und and hermetically sealing him in r ic talner figuratively speaking 0 of course tile the dense britons apparently never heard of the derivation of the word can call as used in this sense bense and the thought that it might perhaps allude to the time honored practice of tying a tin till can call to a dog a tall to get rid of him liever never once entered their heads all of which simply added to tile sport when the americans learned of the interpretation that held had been put upon their slang since then our boys have become a trifle more explicit in their lingo and are less liable to be misunderstood A catchy song has been improvised pro entitled can tile the kaiser which was sung to the ring tune of dixie here it Is in khaiki suit and armor visor all aboard to can call the balsei look may look away look away germany in iiii ha herland he be reigns alone A well we 11 push tile the kaiser oft his throne look away look away look away annay germany then I 1 want to can the kaiser hooray hooray in Kal Kals aerland erland III take my stand eland leta let a go lets go let lets s go and can the kaiser leta let s go lets go let a go and can call the kaiser but the boys boya at the front do not have a monopoly improvising the humorous sayings and songs that tend to lighten the load ot of war oner on oil the coast the california have adopted the song entitled the dattle battle cry of I 1 eed urn em a parody on tho the battle cry ot of freedom well rally round the hoe bos and join the ranks of toll shouting the battle cry of teed peed em well nell train the crops to grow bos as tillers ot of the soil shouting tile the battle cry ot of reed feed hm em where there la Is work to do boys we 11 gather on the spot to duty well we 11 be true boys boya and till the vacant lot I 1 Sg houting the battle cry of feed hm I 1 nature kind nature will aid in our need down with the titter later and out with the weed so well rally round the hoe bo bos s 1 and train the crops to grow shouting the battle cry of feed em 11 and perhaps the finest sense of humor of all the offerings to date to la to be found in the following lines penned by an unknown author from the atlantic seaboard aboard sc they were sung to the tune of tenting on the old camp ground many are the backs that are weary tonight from using the spade and the hoe many are the men who are straining their sight watching for the stuff to grow planting tonight planting night planting in the old back an that americans AXne ricans hae begun to revive the yankee humor which m aich characterized their forebears fore beara and are singing while at work whether on tile the battle fronts oe or 1 tn in the fields back home is indeed a most wholesome situation goodwins weekly |